Over the past few weeks, we have been using Ivan's method to build confidence in Kaly. There is a huge improvement in her attitude towards the tugging game and other things in general. When playing the game, she is always more driven, she holds on to the tug tighter and she fights harder. We are still following the rules of not outing her often, maybe once or twice (maximum) during each session.
We play a lot of chase with the ball as well. I think this helps to build her prey drive, while at the same time relieve some of her stress she would gather from being in the crate the whole day. We feel bad leaving her in the crate the whole day, but school is getting busier as the semester carries on.
We are trying Ivan's foundation to tracking method. It hard to tell whether is there any results from it at the present moment. Kaly is full of drive and sometimes it is hard to get her to focus for more than 3 minutes. I shall post again if there are any improvements.
Sometimes, we have too many excuses... weather too warm, too cold, we are too tired, it is too late, too much homework, headache, blah, blah, blah... here is a video... we have NO MORE EXCUSE... go out there and train...
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Training with Ivan
We started the training methods of Ivan Balabanov. It all started when Sean passed us a copy of "Out without conflict" and we loved the way he trains. Simple and yet logical. Thus, we went ahead and "rented" 2 more videos from his website - "Foundations of tracking" and "The possession game".
About 3 weeks ago, Kaly's bitework started to get bad, she is weak and shallow in her bite. We thought it might be that she is having her heat soon, and that maybe affecting her performance. However, it turned even worse when we started playing "The Game". After watching the other 2 videos, we decided to stop "the game" for a while and just play catch and chase.
Today, we started with tug again, but with only one "out" command. She is much, much better .... I guess we are on the right path and we are going to continue to work in this direction.
About 3 weeks ago, Kaly's bitework started to get bad, she is weak and shallow in her bite. We thought it might be that she is having her heat soon, and that maybe affecting her performance. However, it turned even worse when we started playing "The Game". After watching the other 2 videos, we decided to stop "the game" for a while and just play catch and chase.
Today, we started with tug again, but with only one "out" command. She is much, much better .... I guess we are on the right path and we are going to continue to work in this direction.
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